A new study from UCLA Health adds to the growing body of evidence on the cognitive benefits of speaking multiple languages, finding that multilingualism not only enhances general cognitive abilities ...
As I mentioned in this newspaper a few months ago, I first served as a diplomat in Kenya in the early nineties, as an attaché at the Swiss Embassy. If I was asked what I most enjoyed during that early ...
SALZBURG, Austria, Feb. 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a world with more than 7,000 languages but where 23 languages dominate, linguists, academics, policymakers, and business leaders have come ...
It can come as a surprise to many people in the U.K. and U.S. that speaking more than one language is the norm rather than the exception. In prehistoric times, most people belonged to small linguistic ...
Last year, a high-profile study in Nature Aging offered a particularly intriguing finding: Living in a multilingual country can protect your brain from the ravages of time. It’s a compelling, ...